CAS Update
Here we are in the midst of the “ hot ” holiday season and this is our latest update .
The kennels are very full at the moment and the Costa Animal Society ( CAS ) have various dogs that still need adopting . But , as people are on their holidays , enquiries have been a bit “ thin on the ground ”. We are hoping for an upturn in September .
The good news is that our work on the street with the cats has continued as normal . We rescued nine tiny little kittens from a colony by the side of the Rio Chillar in July . Sadly , two were so weak that even with help from the vet , they did not survive .
One had a heavily infected eye , which had to be removed , but he has bounced back and is full of life . He , along with three others have now found their forever homes . As I write this , we have another one ( named Hearty after the distinctive marking on her side ) who is going to her forever home tomorrow . That leaves us with two ( Tinka and Gino ) who are brother and sister , needing a home .
The shop continues to be busy and the funds raised allow us to continue with the neutering and spaying of the cats and dogs . This is an ongoing process and although we try our hardest to trap as many cats as we can , some do “ slip through the net ” – Hence the nine rescued kittens .
If you would like to meet any of the animals under CAS ’ care and are looking to adopt or are willing to foster a pet please contact us by email at costaanimalsociety @ gmail . com or through our Facebook page .
Happy Tales
Gino
Hearty
Tinka
Toby is a good natured dog who was rescued from a neglectful situation where he was left on his own in the campo and was brought to kennels about five months ago because he kept escaping from a foster home when the owners went out . Toby is a lovely boy who loves to be around people and gets along well with other dogs . He is a Golden Retriever type dog who is about two-yearsold and his reddish coat hints at a Setter in his gene pool . Toby is a medium size and weighs about 25 kilos and he is in good health apart from needing two pills a day for low level Leishmania . He is quite clean in his kennel so he will easily be house trained but will need a fenced garden to keep him from wandering .
Buzz and Leo have been roommates in kennels for the past four months and have shown they can live in close quarters with other dogs but neither one is good with cats . Actually , both boys have been in kennels before , Leo as a young pup before he was adopted and Buzz spent about a month in a foster home earlier this year . Leo was adopted by a Dutch couple during lockdown and spent most of his time with at least one owner at home . Leo was house trained in his cage and enjoyed long walks off leash and at the dog beach in Torrox .
Toby
Buzz
Unfortunately , once international travel restrictions were lifted the circumstances of his owners changed and they needed to spend much of their time travelling back and forth between the Netherlands and Spain so this meant Leo would have had to spend many weeks in boarding kennels and his owners felt this would not be fair to a young dog . Buzz is a smooth Border Collie cross who was found wandering the Leo streets of Nerja and spent a few months in kennels before being placed in a foster home with a nice retired couple . Whilst living there Buzz demonstrated he was already house trained but he would not leave their cats alone . The foster couple gave him several chances over the next month but each time the cats ran Buzz gave chase . Both dogs are about two-years-old and are healthy and castrated .